Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think it would be cool if an extension was created which would allow >> everyone to specify what units they prefer, and the values in articles >> would be converted automatically based on preference.
> Whatever you do, make it client-side. It would be great to expose type > information with an attribute in HTML, so that it can be used for > client-side unit conversions. Ideally the typed information comes > directly from wikidata (and can be fed to nice table/pie chart/whatever > widgets), but it should also not be too hard to mark up data that lives > on the wiki the same way. There's also http://microformats.org/wiki/measure for a more standardized solution that could work on other websites as well. Tim _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
